TOM ROBINSON: While the asbestos mines closed down in 1966, it was more than a decade later that the people of Wittenoom were officially told it was not safe for them to stay. HELEN OSBORNE: We ...

In 2019 former lands minister Ben Wyatt echoed those calls when he ushered in the end of the former Wittenoom townsite. But in 1988 former mining minister Jeff Carr said the state government would be ...

It was officially established in 1947 as a company town to house those working on the blue asbestos mine in the nearby Wittenoom Gorge. In the 1950s, Wittenoom became Australia’s sole supplier ...

Of the 20 000 people who once lived in Wittenoom - an outback mining town in Western Australia - at least 1 000 are dead of asbestos-related diseases. Just about everyone else left long ago.

The state government could be dragged to court by Pilbara traditional owners for failing to clean up Wittenoom’s mountains of deadly asbestos tailings. ... But a letter in 1988 from former mining ...

The mining town of Wittenoom has even been nicknamed 'Australia's Chernobyl' due to the horrific impact asbestos has had on the area. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Wittenoom is surrounded ...

Once a symbol of economic prosperity, Wittenoom is now a ghost town, polluted by decades of asbestos mining. Subscribe . Digital Print . July 10, 2025 . Subscribe. Digital Print. Japan elections; ...

The demolition has begun of an abandoned asbestos town in Western Australia which was built to house workers at the nearby mines and their families. Wittenoom was delisted as a town by the state ...

Review: Wittenoom, directed by Susie Dee, Red Stitch Deep in the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia, the town of Wittenoom lies em ...